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Director
  
Jane Anderson

Music director
  
Alex Wurman

Country
  
United States

7.2/10
IMDb

100%
Rotten Tomatoes

Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Normal (2003 film) movie poster

Release date
  
January 21, 2003 (2003-01-21) (Sundance)

Writer
  
Jane Anderson (play), Jane Anderson (teleplay)

Nominations
  
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design

Cast
  
Tom Wilkinson
(Roy 'Ruth' Applewood),
Jessica Lange
(Irma Applewood),
Hayden Panettiere
(Patty Ann Applewood),
Clancy Brown
(Frank),
Richard Bull
(Roy Sr.),
Joseph Sikora
(Wayne Applewood)

Similar movies
  
My Life in Pink (1997), Princesa (2001), Jessica Lange appears in Normal and Country, Holiday Heart (2000), The Ignorant Fairies (2001)

Tagline
  
Love. Marriage. Acceptance. Sex change.

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Normal is a 2003 drama film produced by HBO Films, which became an official selection at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Jane Anderson, the film's writer and director, adapted her own play, Looking for Normal. The film is about the gender transition of Ruth Applewood, a transgender woman who had been living as a man for 25 years of marriage. A Midwestern factory worker, Applewood (then going by "Roy") stuns her wife of 25 years by saying she wishes to undergo sex reassignment surgery and transition to living as a woman. The film was praised by most critics, and was nominated for numerous awards.

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Applewood (Tom Wilkinson), after fainting on the night of his 25th marriage anniversary, shocks her wife Irma (Jessica Lange) by revealing that he/she plans to transition into living as a woman and be renamed Ruth. While Ruth tries to keep the family together, Irma's initial reaction is to separate from her. Patty Ann (Hayden Panettiere), their daughter, is more accepting, but Wayne (Joseph Sikora), their son, struggles with the transition.

Ruth faces ostracism at church and at work. She finds understanding from her boss but not from her minister. In the end, Irma discovers that love transcends gender and the family survives.

Cast

  • Jessica Lange as Irma Applewood
  • Tom Wilkinson as Ruth Applewood
  • Clancy Brown as Frank
  • Hayden Panettiere as Patty Ann Applewood
  • Joe Sikora as Wayne Applewood
  • Richard Bull as Roy Applewood, Sr.
  • Mary Siebel as Em Applewood

    • Awards and nominations

    Normal was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, won one Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for another five.

    Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson both received acting nominations for the Golden Globes, Primetime Emmy's and Satellite Awards.

    References

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